Cubic chess

Cubic chess

A cubic chess game in progress
Designers	Vladimír Pribylinec
Years active	Current rules since 2008
Genres	Abstract strategy game Chess variant
Players	2
Setup time	< 1 min.
Playing time	Casual games usually 10–60 mins.
Chance	None
Skills	Strategy, tactics
Synonyms	Echos

Cubic chess is a chess variant invented by Vladimír Pribylinec beginning with an early version (named Echos) in 1977.^[1][2][3] The game substitutes cubes for the chess pieces, where four of the faces of each cube display a different chess piece (pawn, knight, bishop and rook), the two other faces are blank and are orientated to the players. This provides an efficient means (rotating the cube on a square) to change a piece's type. Kings and queens have unique cubes containing only their symbol, effectively behaving as normal.

The game begins like standard chess, with a normal 8×8 chessboard, and cubes rotated so that uppermost faces reflect the standard chess starting position.